19 October 2012
This paper describes some methods for producing developable surfaces with practical applications for creating useful lightweight, rigid, jig-less and elegant structural forms from sheet materials. Multiple related techniques based on the same fundamental principle can be used to generate a variety of interesting singly curved and doubly curved shapes. The system requires a minimum of specialist software, and is described in simple steps that can be followed by the reader with access to basic 3D CAD tools.
1 July 2012
The Lotus sculpture at the Goodwood festival of Speed was in the form of a 28m high trefoil knot.
1 June 2012
A 2D homography is the well known 'perspective transformation', File::DXF contains a tool for performing a plane-preserving, collinear homography on 3D objects.
1 May 2012
The old PTStitcher tool contained a 'morph-to-fit' option that helps with stitching panoramas with parallax errors. This had various issues, ptomorph is a command-line tool to get better morphing with Hugin.
1 October 2011
These are some Sheffield street elevations stitched from multiple photos in the Hugin panorama stitcher.
1 August 2011
We got a 'Certificate of Merit' in the Structural Steel Design Awards for the Alfa Romeo sculpture
1 July 2011
The 2011 centrepiece sculpture at the Goodwood festival of Speed was a 27m high 'statue' of an e-type Jaguar car.
1 October 2010
This was a temporary sculpture built for a ceremony to celebrate the millionth Audi made in China.
1 July 2010
The Alfa Romeo sculpture at the 2010 Goodwood festival of Speed was two loops of steel tube tied into a 'bow'.
1 July 2010
The Alfa Romeo sculpture at the 2010 Goodwood festival of Speed was two loops of steel tube tied into a 'bow'.
26 June 2010
They managed to cut my name out from the print edition, but the online version is slightly better
31 May 2010
The widely used rectilinear perspective projection cannot render realistic looking flat views with fields of view
much wider than 70°. Yet 18th century artists known as ‘view painters’ depicted wider architectural scenes without
visible perspective distortion ...
11 April 2010
This is the view of Sheffield from Parkwood Springs near the ski-slope
24 November 2009
There are a couple of my photos on the wall in the Pizza Express, Devonshire Street, Sheffield.
5 July 2009
The 2009 sculpture at the goodwood festival was a steel 'loop' with an Audi Streamliner at one end and a modern Audi at the other.
26 October 2008
Some 'little planet' panoramas of the attendees of the 2008 Summer of Code Summit at Google headquarters in Mountain View
10 September 2008
This is a quick tutorial on using the pafextract and panoglview tools to patch the nadir or any other part of a panorama
3 August 2008
The 2008 sculpture at the Festival of Speed was a 30m high steel 'rock'
21 April 2008
This is a spherical panorama stitched with hugin, enblend and enfuse; then exported to Blender as a lightprobe and animated.
16 August 2007
Some panoramas from the 2007 Panotools meeting in Lucerne Switzerland